A heatwave has officially arrived in Lincolnshire - we visited Skegness to see how people are keeping cool.
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00:00 After a changeable summer, it's officially a heatwave in Lincolnshire
00:05 with five days of late-season sunshine promised. We visited Skegness to see how
00:12 people are keeping cool.
00:15 Hiya, I'm Naomi, I'm the Director of Operations here at Magna Vitae.
00:20 Now it's officially a heatwave but it's come a bit late in the season hasn't it?
00:25 Yeah I mean obviously I think we've had fairly rainy season this year in
00:31 comparison to last year but it's always nice to have a little bit of sunshine
00:34 into September. Normally we'd be closing our swimming pool the first weekend but
00:39 when you've got a national heatwave on the way we'd be fools to put the covers
00:43 on and say goodnight so it's been really nice that we've extended it a little bit
00:46 and as long as the sun keeps shining we'll keep it open.
00:50 It's a bit misty in Skegness at the minute but it is lifting isn't it?
00:56 Yeah it's set to be a really nice day, we had a really nice day yesterday as well.
01:00 The weekend's looking really bright so hopefully we've got a few caravan owners
01:03 that are going to be enjoying that and getting the most out of their stay as
01:07 well. So yeah once this little bit of mist and fog lifts it'll be a glorious
01:10 day. The joy when it's a little bit like this is you get to see just the steam
01:14 coming off the heated outdoor pool and it's glorious I mean what a way to start
01:18 your day. Yeah absolutely, now as well as being a fabulous way of cooling off
01:25 swimming is becoming more than just that isn't it? Yeah I mean for us
01:32 we find that I mean one straight away if you've had any injury or anything like
01:36 that swimming is a great way because there's no impact on your joints and we
01:40 find that for a lot of our local community that's what it's used for as
01:44 well but we've also got the young ones having their swimming lessons. We live
01:46 right on the coast, swimming and having the ability to swim is so important to
01:51 us but as well secondary to probably exercises or should I say firstly against
01:58 exercises the social interaction that the members get here you know we see
02:03 them coming in rain or shine just having that you know weekly chat getting to
02:08 know each other getting to know the team and making friendships that's the
02:11 important thing. Now we've got one of the swimmers coming up to us now what's it
02:18 like in there? It's beautifully warm. Now I understand you're local aren't you?
02:24 Why do you come? Well in the midst of a busy life I look forward to coming
02:32 swimming most days really because it's just such a wonderful facility we have
02:38 here in Sleign Ness. And you know what does it mean to you to have this
02:45 facility? Well first of all in a seaside town to have something like this is just
02:52 great and it's a place to meet other people. I've got a lot of friends that I
02:59 meet at different times here and to swim with friends and with a great staff here
03:05 as well that's what's not to like really. The beach was deserted while the early
03:11 morning mist was rising but kiosk owners were already setting up hoping for a
03:16 late-season rush on ice cream. We're at the Chunky Monkey kiosk on Tower Esplanade.
03:20 Craig we've got a heatwave coming are you hoping you're gonna be selling a few
03:25 more ice creams? Yes we're hoping to sell ice creams slush we do doggy ice cream
03:30 so lots of dog walkers want that as it gets too hot. So what's it been like
03:35 during the summer? Pre-July was really good July was pretty bad it was about
03:42 half of your normal turnover August was flat and now September starting to look
03:47 good. So you're hoping for a few more visitors over the next few days? Yes we
03:51 are yes so far it's been good and hopefully for the rest of the week and
03:54 the weekends that's going to be good as well it's looking nice and hot, dry and
03:59 sunny which people want. Well I can smell the doughnuts warming up already so it's
04:04 all smelling very good so here's hoping lots of people come. Yeah thanks for that.